Professors at U. of Michigan Question Administrators’ Extra Pay

Among the officials at the U. of Michigan who received extra pay were (clockwise from top left) Cynthia Wilbanks, Ronald Zernicke, Rowan Miranda, and Laura Patterson.

By Don Troop

Nine years ago, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor spent
less than $13-million annually on a handful of "additional pay"
categories that reward employees for meeting performance goals or
taking on duties outside their job descriptions. By last year that
sum—which is undisclosed on the university’s published list of
salaries—had ballooned to more than $46-million and included
individual premiums worth tens of thousands of dollars to a few
top-tier administrators, deans,